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5 Days Istanbul & Cappadocia Trip – Including Hot Air Balloon Ride
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2 Days
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Offered in: English, Spanish
Overview
3 day travel from Istanbul to Cappadocia’s fascinating geologic formations during guided private tours. This three-day two-night tour from Istanbul to Cappadocia is private basis. That's meaning, you will not share your transportation services (tour-transfer cars) and guiding services with any other tourists. The package offer includes all necessary expenses like round-trip flight tickets from Istanbul to Cappadocia, two-nights accommodation at cave hotel, 2 full-day private tours in Cappadocia. The sightseeings of this travel package are Devrent Valley, Avanos Town, Soganli Village, Keslik Monastery, Goreme Open-Air Museum, Uchisar, Sobesos, Sinassos (Mustafapasa Village), Red Valley.
What's Included
- Transfers at the mentioned airports for domestic flights in the itinerary
- Flight Tickets : Istanbul to Denizli - Izmir to Istanbul or Izmir to Cappadocia
- XX nights hotel accommodation including breakfast
- Breakfast
- Hotel pick-up & drop-off services for each mentioned tours and transfers on itinerary
- Professional tour guide who licenced by Ministry of Culture and Tourism
- Dinner & Drinks
- Entrance fees of the museums (Your guide will have pre-paid tickets to skip the line.)
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What To Expect
Flight from Istanbul to Denizli – Pamukkale, Hierapolis, Laodicea Tour - Overnight at Kusadasi
12 Stops
Istanbul
The travel services will start with a departure transfer. Your driver will pick you up from your hotel in Istanbul and then transfer to airport for your flight from Istanbul to Denizli.
1 Hours • Admission Ticket Free
Upon arrival Denizli Cardak airport, your tour guide and another driver will meet you at the exit gate of the arrival terminal. After you met with your guide, you will start the full-day tour to Pamukkale, Hierapolis Ancient City, Laodicea Ancient City.
1 Hours • Admission Ticket Free
Hierapolis & Pamukkale
The highlights of Hierapolis are Necropolis, Roman Baths, Domitian Gate, Latrina, Oil Factory, Frontinus Street, Agora, Byzantium Gate, Triton Fountain, Cathedral, Apollon Temple, Plutonium, Theater and Antique Pool. During visits to these ancient ruins, you can take some photos from the nicest corners of the Pamukkale.
1 Hours • Admission Ticket Not Included
Pamukkale Thermal Pools
After visited the Hierapolis Ancient City, you will have free time for about 60-75 minutes to explore the natural beauties of the Pamukkale, and swim at white travertines - thermal pools (or antique pool - Cleopatra’s pool with extra fee). Then meet again with your guide, start walking in the middle of travertines from up to down without shoes and socks.
1 Hours • Admission Ticket Free
Cleopatra Pools
Situated above the Pamukkale white travertine pools is one particularly spectacular location fed by the same hot springs. Here you can bath in the same waters in which Cleopatra once swam! A professionally run modern spa facility allows you to enjoy these historical healing waters. Unlike the white water of the lower pools the Antique Pool favored by Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, is pure clear warm water. Once it was surmounted by a Roman Temple to Apollo with ornate roof held up with Doric columns. Imagine how Cleopatra must have experienced this when you imagine it in it's glory day.
30 Minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Pamukkale
You will stop at a local restaurant for your lunch. Today’s lunch is included during guided tour.
1 Hours • Admission Ticket Free
After the lunch, you will have experience traditional handcraft workshop for get lecture about the special stones/metals of Pamukkale.
30 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Laodicea
Excavations here have revealed artifacts dating from 3500 BC (Late Chalcolithic) to 3000 BC (Early Bronze Age). The city’s name comes from the Seleucid king Antiochus ii, who named it for his wife Laodike in the 3rd century BC when it was thriving. Later controlled by the kings of Pergamum, it was willed to the Roman Empire, and thrived again from the 4th to 6th centuries. Its importance then numbered it among the Seven Churches of Revelation.
1 Hours • Admission Ticket Not Included
Pamukkale Paragliding Adventure (Optional Attraction – You can add this attraction to your experiences with extra cost.) : See Pamukkale’s glistening white travertine and ancient Hierapolis, including the enormous theater, from the air on this short-but-sweet paragliding experience with a seasoned pilot. You will race off the edge of a slope about 1,300 feet (400 meters) up, then glide on the breezes over the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
30 Minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Kusadasi
After your Pamukkale, Hierapolis, Laodicea Tour, you will be transferred to your hotel in Kusadasi.
2 Hours 30 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Kusadasi Castle
This small castle is picturesque Byzantine fortress stands on the causeway-connected Guvercin Adasi (Pigeon Island) and has recently been renovated. *** There is no any visit to this place on tour. You can visit there by your own after we dropped you to your hotel in Kusadasi.
• Admission Ticket Free
Okuz Mehmet Pasa KervansarayI
This caravanserai was built by the Grand Vizier Okuz Mehmed Pasha to support maritime trade in the region. This historical building is opposite to Kusadasi cruise port. *** There is no any visit to this place on tour. You can visit there by your own after we dropped you to your hotel in Kusadasi.
• Admission Ticket Free
Accommodations : INCLUDED - There are different hotel variations. You can choose your hotel category while booking to this tour package.
Meals : Lunch
Birgi Village, Odemis City, Tire City Tour - Overnight at Kusadasi
7 Stops
Kusadasi
After having breakfastat at your hotel, the tour guide will pick you up on 08.30am (Approx) and depart for your full-day tour to Birgi Village, Odemis City, Tire City. Today you will have experiences for test the local tastes of district. Also you will have experiences about the Ottoman and Seljuks village life, and see the many manuscript books which are more than 200 years old which saving in Historical Necib Pasha Library.
1 Hours 15 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Continuing its 127-year-old family tradition and labor for 4 generations, Töngül Pide Bakery continues to offer Ödemiş's signature flavor, Töngül pita, to its customers with the same recipe, sincerity and family warmth. The famous one-of-a-kind pita made with the Töngül family's special pita dough; It is combined with plenty of parsley, village butter and minced meat and cooked in a bottom-burning oven with oak wood. The historical flavor, served by smearing olive oil on the warm pita taken out of the oven and grating Ödemiş's tulum cheese on top, has been passed down from grandfather to son and has been offering real wood-fired pitas to its customers for more than a century.
45 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free
The village, which attracts attention with its rich culture, lush nature, and natural beauty, offers visitors an opportunity to observe rare examples of traditional residential texture dating back to the 18th century. With over 200 registered cultural assets, Birgi was placed on the Tentative List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2012. In addition, it is also involved in international organisations such as the Cittaslow Slow Cities network.
1 Hours • Admission Ticket Free
Birgi Cakiraga Mansion
The 18th-century Çakırağa Mansion is a stellar reflection of the architectural and decorative style specific to the region at the time. There is a general belief that Çakırağa Mansion was built by Şerif Aliağa. It is one of the few mansions whose architectural style was preserved just as it was in the first construction and settlement period in the Aegean region. The building is an important source in Turkish architecture for understanding the daily life of the Ottoman Empire. The Mansion, which is one of the most beautiful examples of wooden Turkish houses, stands at the end of a garden adorned with flowers.
45 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Tire
Tire köftesi (Tire Meatball) refers to a special type of ground meat dish that originates from the Tire district of İzmir, Türkiye. Tire köftesi (Tire Meatball) consists of minced meat (often lamb or a mix of beef and lamb), breadcrumbs or stale bread soaked in milk or water, onions, garlic, and various spices. One distinguishing feature is its soft and juicy texture, which is achieved through its specific mixture of ingredients and cooking method: they are often shallow-fried until they have a crispy exterior, then they might be simmered in a sauce or served directly. Tire köftesi is often served with sides like, grilled vegetables, or fresh salads.
1 Hours • Admission Ticket Free
Off the beaten track of researchers and scholars of the Ottoman Empire, Tire Necip Paşa Library is an endowment (Tr. vakıf, Ar. waqf) library dating back to the early-nineteenth century located in the Turkish town of Tire in Izmir province. Established in 1827-28 by the Ottoman statesman Mehmed Necib Paşa, the library boasts 5156 titles that include 1754 manuscripts and 3402 print books in modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, and Persian. The library continues to serve researchers through digitization services and limited capacity in-person viewings in its original location today.
30 Minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Kusadasi
At the end of the tour, you will be transfered back to your hotel in Kusadasi.
45 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Accommodations : INCLUDED - There are different hotel variations. You can choose your hotel category while booking to this tour package.
Meals : Breakfast, Lunch
Additional Info
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- The prices of package are valid for accommodation at the double or triple room. If you would like make reservation for single room(s), there could be supplement cost. There are not going to be any extra cost for single / solo travelers. This cost already accounted on price of these travelers.
- If the hotels which offered by local tour operator on the tour details are not available for standard/superior rooms on your travel dates, the local tour operator can replace it with an equivalent hotel. The local tour operator will inform you that detail max next 72 hours after your booking.
- You will not need print out copies of the tickets of domestic flights. Your passport, and reservation number on the tickets will be enough for check-in to plane. Local tour operator will send e-tickets of your domestic flights at six days before of your departure date.
- You will have 15kg luggage + 8kg hand bag quota per person for each domestic flight. If you will need more luggage capacity, please inform that to local tour operator. There could be some extra fee for luggage quotas more than 15kg. This is exactly about the policies of airline companies.
- Hot air ballooning is a fully weather-dependent activity and the Civil Aviation Authority determines whether the flight will be held. If your flight is cancelled due to inclement weather conditions, you are entitled to a partial refund. In such a case, your refund will be processed by the day after of that trip. The refund rate is going to be difference between options of "... with balloon ride" and "... without balloon ride"
- The Standard Balloon Ride has an One-hour approximately flight duration with 20 to 28 people capacity basket. The flight duration could be 50-55 minutes or 65-70 minutes. This situation depend the weather conditions before landing. Total activity duration is approximately 3 hours.
- Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required.
- Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking.
- The children who 5 years old and under are not allowed to balloon tours.
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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